The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIIL, NO. 8943. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED 13 PRICE TEN CEN JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 28, 1942 U. S. BOMBERS SMAS H JAPA NESE FLEET Allied Steamer Torpedoed; Many Missing SHIP STRUCK | TWO TIMES, THEN SINKS Indications Are that More| than 350 Crewmen and | Passengers Missing SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 28| —Torpedoing of an Allied steamer | is reported by a ship captain on| arrival here. He rescued 71 of the crew and passengers but indicated more than 350 persons are missing. The rescue officer is Capt. Hei- gesen of the New York-Puerto Rico steamer Coamo. Capt. Helgesen said he picked up the survivors last Friday night, five | days after the steamer had been struck twice by torpedoes and sunk quickly. | The position of the attack is not} given. | The Allied steamer had about 450 persons aboard. The crew num- | bered at least 100 and there were at least 350 passengrs aboard. YANKEE FLIERS BAG JAP PLANES, DARING DOGFIGHT RANGOON, Jan. 28-—-Yankee vol- unteer fliers have achieved an- | other air fighting miracle east of | Rangoon. In a daylight dog fight the Yank- | ees destroyed six Japanese fighter planes and the official count may reach nine. The Yankees suffered | no casualties. (?n'. WASHINGTON —After three| years’ probing of subversive activi- ties, it takes a lot to excite Rep- resentative Martin Dies, but the| other day the rangy Texan hit on a discovery that took his breath away. His committee has been making a sweeping inquiry of Jap fifth-col- umning on the West Coast, in- cluding subversive teaching in Jap- anese language schools all /,fer Southern California. Investigators found that from the primary grades up students in these schools are in doctrinated with militarism and the ideology of their Japanese an- g , for instance, are| filled with pictures of the Japanese flag and soldiers, accounts of the greatness of the Jap navy, and stories with titles like “My Brother Enlisted in the Army.” However, the thing that stunned Dies was a portion of a story titled “Submarines.” Although several years ago, it was a perfect description of the sneak Jap sub- marine attack at Pearl Harbor. Printed in both Japanese and English, it read: “It is our duty to go underwater when the enemy’s battleships draw near and Sink them by shooting torpedoes, and at times tc go secretly to the enemy's harbor and attack his battleships without warning” U.S.-CANADIAN COOPERATION On the morning that the State Department issued its famous state- ment blasting the “so-called” Free Prench for taking over the tiny North Atlantic islands of St. Pierre- Miquelon, Ray Atherton, chief of | the State Department’s European | Division, telephoned to Hume Wrong, counselor of the Canadian Legation. Canada is more concerned with| the two French islands than any written | § Many Expedifionary Forces Already Sent From IS PRISONER OF JAPAN ———— Commander Winfield Scott Cun- ningham, U. S. N. (above), Com- mander of the American naval | and marine forces at Wake Island during the one-sided battle with the invading Japs, who was re- cently reported as having person- i | ally delivered a radio address | under Japanese auspices, in which he said, “Since the capture of Wake, the prisoners, including myself, have been fairly treated and are all in good health.” His wife was the former Louise Dadey, a University of California student from Phoenix, Ariz, whom Com- mander Cunningham married in Oakland in 1927. T. Sutherland of Portland, Ore., foreman of a Wake Island civilian defense work project, His wife and daughter live in Salinas, Calif. | BEAT OFF With the north’s overcoat buttoned up against the frigid winter, this picture from Palm Beach, as the season opens, spreads a welcome breath of warmth and cheer. Joy Shepherd, of Westport, Conn., is en- joying » dip in the ocean. Lucky girl! Anchorage Bond Issue Infroduced, Delegale Dimond WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill to authorize the City of Anchorage to issue bonds, other country because they are nearest her shores; so Atherton —‘(Contlnu—ed on PageVF'our) not to exceed $1,200,000 for the pur- U.S., Says FDR WASHINGTON, Jan. 28— Presi- dent Roosevelt asersted that six,| eight or 10 expeditionary forces have been sent outside the United States. | The President told th enewsmen at a conference that the United| States is sending all help is could | and as fast as it could to the whole | | southwest Pacific area. | | The President also told the news- | JAPS ARE LURED INTO DEATH TRAP American Fliers Make Sud- den Raid, Score Direct Hits on Ships TRANSPORTS, (RUISER SENT DOWN, DAMAGED men that very good progress This is a photo of a sister ship of the Standard Oil tanker Allan Jackson, which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of North Carolina with a Fifth Naval District in Norfolk, V. six of them seriously injured. The sinking marked the third submarine a, Thirteen of the crew survived, Also heard on | | the air was, purportedly, Hudson | being made in getting 2id to We: ern Pacific The President did not elaborate on his statement about the expedi- | tionary forces and said he pre- ferred not to discuss the where the . American forc have been sent SINGAPORE SIRIPISTO * BE CLEARED Evacuation of Civilians, Livestock, Ordered by Friday Noon | 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28 — Orders |have been issued for the evacution |by noon Friday of all civilians and livestock from a strip one mile deep jon the northern shore of Singapore {Island which faces the Malayan /mainland across the narrow strip of Johore Strait. | The edict came late today as the| fighting lines swayed back and forth above the water hurdle the| Japanese must cross for any land| attack to cnter Singapore. SURVIVORS TORPEDOED SHIP SAFE lts War Torn NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 28—Twelve| | survivors and one body of the crew ,of the torpedoed tanker Francis ' Powell have been landed at Chinco- | teague and will be brought to Nor- | folk this afternoon, according 1o !an announcement by the Fifth | | Naval District. | The survivors and one body ac-) counts for at least 30 of the tank- er's usual complement of 32 crew- men. The tanker was torpedoed off the ! east coast early Tuesday and 11,“"e n -t SORs seamen were brought ashore at‘ri:k d::b‘:h;:e t-fi;:es"han;l;;'r '..“e Lewes, Delaware, last night. | 4 o pgne |Pool. You can stand at one end and say “I'll race you from the | Washington Monument to the Lin- |coln Memorial.” By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — The Capital in wartime: {to skate on the Reflecting Pool imese days and nights, you would |never think Washington had a One of the bright young men who cover “the Hill” set out the {other day to try to find some new |bill that didn’t have a thing to RUSSIANS, fialional Htap‘ilalfil‘!ésl; | To see the gang that assembles Nerves; All that down with a plop, too. That’s a military reservation, As a matter of fact this complete occupation with war problems and policies should show how thor- oughly . Congress and Washington bhas taken over the problem hand. . In one week of solid sessions, only twice did Congress extend itself in the Congressional Record Index on any matters not . pertaining to the war. You'll have to do a lot of dig- ging to find any one who can re- member when Congress has stayed 50 solidly on one track so long. A unique federal office 1s in| loss of twenty-three lives, according to an announcement from the Members of the crew of the S. S. Malay with their captain, had a cheer after they brought the craft into Newpert News, Va., after it had been shelled and torpedoed off the Carolina coast. grouped about a hole in the deck made by the blast from the torpedo. |BRITISH SAY Taking]flul Onlce Rink| AT I_[flPASSE | { | | {ance activity on both side the | Libyan desert. attack on shipping off the Atlantic coast. i Tnkr (rw»her Ier Limping Info Port OSCAR HART FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Veteran ATr—aveling Man Passes Away Suddenly in Ketchikan Hotel | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan, 28— { Occar Hart, traveling man who has been 'a familiar figure throughout ) Alaska during the past twodecades, died as the result of a sudden at- tack of the heart in his sleep. The body was found in his bed in his hotel room this morning. Hart only arrived here two days ago from Seattle on his first selling trip of the year. Hart was about 55 years old and made bis headquarters in Seattle. He is survived by a daughter, Jean Hart, who resides at 2543 Shore- land Drive, Seattle. Hart apparently never wakened after retiring last night. ,___m" —— REDS FORGE AHEAD ALONG WIDE FRONT Germans Eporied Re- | treating to Deep Defense System Near Latvia (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Russia’s armies, pressing a great winter counter - offensive, today |were reported surging forward un- The seamen are LIBYAN WAR Germans, lfalians Differ on Versions of Rom- mel’s Adtivity (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British headquarters on the North African front today said that Gen- eral Rommel’s Axis armies, which shoved the British back 150 miles “°% in three days, have been stopped Soviet dispatches reported the for the pasi two days and apparent- Fécapture of 79 more towns and ly have reached an impasse in indicated Hitley's retreating invad- their counter drive. ers are falling back on a double Axis versions of the vast desert row defense system which is a struggle differed. Hitler’s head- mile and one-half in depth, ex- quarters noted merely ‘reconnaiss- tending from Velikie Luki to Vy- in the azma to Bryansk. Velikle Luki is solini’s only 80 miles from the Latvian 250-mile German defense line northwest and southwest of Mos- while My checked on the threshold of the| Thousands;f-Nippon In- vaders Die in Shark Infested Waters (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Giant American four - motored bombers, smashing anew at the Japanese invasion armada in Ma- cassar Strait, sank a big Japanese transport, set another afire and strafed a Japanese cruiser with sticks of bombs. The officlal announcement of the War Department in Washing- | ton said a formation of eight Unit- ed States Army bombers were en- gaged in the attack but admits that one bomber was lost. The official communique further says that the bombers scored di- rect hits .on the transparts and cruiser, .pounding home Japan's greatest naval disaster of the present war, The U, 8. fliers thus boosted to at least 36 the number of Japanese ships sunk or badly damaged in the five-day battle in Macassar Strait, the roadway to Java, where the headquarters of Gen. Wavell are at present. Lured Into Trap The communique from Gen. Wa- vell acknowledges that the Japu- nese have apparently occupied thas burned out oil center at Balik Papan, East Borneo, on Macassar Btrait. . It is officially stated that the | Japanese were lured into the death trap by the Dutch more than a week ago when they announced the Ballk Papan oil fields were de- stroyed and implied the land de- fenses had with drawn, Into Hornet’s Nest In accepting this “invitation,” the Japanese armada unwarily sailed into a hornet’s nest of Al- lied submarines, bombers and sur- face craft, No immediate estimate is avail- able as to the loss of Japanese lives but presumably the toll has run into the thousands. While the Dutch listed 30 Japa- nese troopships and warships as sunk or badly damaged, the Amer- ican accounts put the five-day toll to 36 vessels, including one battle- ship. | Dispatches from Batavia, up to |noon today, did not disclose wheth- er the battle in the shark-infested Macassar Strait still continued ‘after yesterday's smashing blows by Ithe United States Army bombers. | 34 MINERS 15 CLAIM | BERLIN, Jan. 286—On the Ori- mean front, a German bulletin to- day asserts that Russian reinforce- ments that landed on the north- lern coast of the Black Sea Penin- sula have been beaten off and al- !most completely wiped out after | | several days of hard fighting. l TR | MRS. MORRISON LEAVES , Mrs, Malcolm Morrison and daughter Gail, are southbound for . Seattle to remain indefinitely. ' e MRS. REDLING SOUJTH Mrs. William N. Redling visited 6332 It looked like a cinch. It|pe espimates that only one-third friends in Juneau jast night whilz enroute from Chilkoot Barracks to do with the war. After diligent search he came on “A bill to ap- propriate funds to provide for the educational attainment of persons 17 years of age or over, having |less than' a fourth grade educa- ‘tion.” | His shout of “Eureka” died on his lips for the next phra: was, “For the purpose of fa tating the National Defense.” It is, too. It's a measure de- signed to raise the educational status of boys who have been deferred in the draft for f: ure to meet its comparatively mild educational standards. Sixty-two bills and some min- [uws later, he arrived at “H. R was a bill to change the founda- tions of the Chickamauga-Chatta- chase of the Anchorage Light und Seattle. She is accompanied by her nooga National Park in Tennessce Power System. J1gother. and Georgia. A closer scrutiny let Homes Listing Office. It has been |°OMmand asserted the British in operation for about a year and |¢ontinuing to retreat eastward. ’ | The idea is to help newcom- ers to Washington, particularly government employees, get lo- ‘cated. For some time now it Nobody will deny that plenty of‘ folk in Washington are working| their heads off. However, one of | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — The e frontier, LOSELLIVES, EXPLOSION MOUNT HARRIS, Colo.,, Jan. 28 —Thirty-four miners perished in {an explosion in the Victor-Ameri- |can Puel Company coal mine late last night. Only four miners es- Pairit_i( Hurley Is Nominated by FDR ToBe IE Minister WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — The nomination of Patrick Hurley, caped. Secretary of War in the Hoover| The explosion was caused by Administration, to be United States black damp and deadly dioxide gas Minister to New Zealand, was sub- filled the shaft after the explosion mitted to the Senate today. {and impeded work of rescue squads —— e is now setting up on Post Square | has employed 20 persens and it the government personnel experts| in the heart of the government e s ‘HEARING ON k t | { | | | | | is locating homes for incom- | 2 | ing flood at the rate of 100 a tells me that after as thorough survey as it is possible to make, of the 200,000-odd government um-i «oyees here are working more than | |date has not been c¢hanged and the Maritime Commission announced The President assumed that Hur- today that the reopened hearing ley has reached his post and his on the Alaska frelght and passen- nomination was withheld until it ger rate case has been transferred was believed he was safe in New to Seattle from Washington. The Zealand. SR e e hearing will be held on February 3. BUY DEFENSE BONDS who were unable to reach the vic- 'tims for over six hours. Nearly every family in this small mining community had relatives employed in the mine, - — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS